See thou forsake not the
Levite, for he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee. At the end
of three years, thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thine increase
the same year and lay it up within thine own city, and the Levite shall
come because he hath neither part nor inheritance with thee, and the
stranger and the fatherless and the widow which are whithin thy city
and shall eat and fill them selves: that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all the works of thine hand which thou doest.
Chapter .xv.
At the end of seven years thou shalt make a free year. And this is the
manner of the free year, whosoever lendeth ought with his hand unto his
neighbour, may not ask again that which he hath lent, of his neighbour
or of his brother: because it is called the LORD's {lordes} free year,
yet of a stranger thou mayst call it home again. But that which thou
hast with thy brother thine hand shall remit, and that in any wise,
that there be no beggar among you. For the LORD shall bless the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, an heritance to possess it: so that
thou hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and do all
these commandments which I command you this day: yea and then the LORD
thy God shall bless thee as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt lend
unto many nations, and shalt borrow of no man, and shalt reign over
many nations, but none shall reign over thee. When one of thy brethren
among you is waxed poor in any of thy cities within thy land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou harden not thine heart nor shut
to thine hand from thy poor brother: But open thine hand unto him and
lend him sufficient for his need which he hath. And beware that there
be not a point of Belial in thine heart, that thou wouldest say: The
seventh year, the year of freedom is at hand, and therefore it grieve
thee to look on thy poor brother and givest him nought and he then cry
unto the LORD against thee and it be sin unto thee: But give him, and
let it not grieve thine heart to give. Because that for that thing, the
LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou
puttest thine hand to. For the land shall never be without poor.
Wherefore I command thee saying: open thine hand unto thy brother that
is needy and poor in thy land. If thy brother an Hebrew sell himself to
thee, or an Hebrewess, he shall serve thee six years and the seventh
year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him
out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: but shalt
give him of thy sheep and of thy corn and of thy wine, and give him of
that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee. And remember that
thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God
delivered thee thence: wherefore I command thee this thing today. But
and if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he
loveth thee and thine house and is well at ease with thee. Then take an
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